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How do we laugh in times like these?
On Monday night, I had just left an open mic at one of my favorite comedy clubs in Nashville when suddenly the night took a very unfunny turn.
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In the quest for nuance, empathy, and understanding, be careful not to inadvertently help sainthood Charlie Kirk
Very rarely do I narrow the scope so tightly on whom I am speaking to in my essays, but this is going to be one of those cases.
Sep 11, 2025
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It’s Labor Day Weekend, and as an indie artist, I’m afraid we’ve already lost the lesson of the writer's strike
(This might be the first time that I’ve ever done a double post on Substack, and I promise not to make a habit of it.
Aug 31, 2025
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Dante created Hell as we know it with the Divine Comedy and we need to be very careful not to do the same
Like many of you, I could not sleep over the weekend as we awaited word on whether or not the Philanderer-in-Chief had finally shuffled the mortal coil.
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The persecution that evangelicals have feared happening to them is becoming a reality for US immigrants
I was fourteen years old the first time I was warned from the pulpit that persecution was coming and that someday I might soon have to die for my faith.
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I’m a strong-willed child who survived James Dobson and found what family really means
I was a strong-willed child.
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I thought that I f+cked up a big business opportunity by being myself and then...
I had never done any partnerships with any brands before and I had no fucking clue what I was doing.
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What's happening to Colbert isn't new but rather the oldest story in comedy… just ask the court jester
Lenny Bruce died alone in his home from a morphine overdose.
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